| Show 06 February 2013 |
Experience the Eurovision Song Contest with Radio International and Partners.
Please note that many interviews we air are also available as video interview which can be viewed on our Radio International YouTube Channel. Just take a look and enjoy also see the artists talk to us.
 Interview with Gianluca Bezzina (Malta 2013) and more: On
Saturday, 02 February 2013 Malta selected their entry to the Eurovision
Song Contest 2013 with a young medical doctor by the name of Gianluca Bezzina who will be the Ambassador of Malta in Malmoe waving the Maltese Flag and singing the song "Tomorrow" which won Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2013 followed by Kevin Borg's "Needing you" as runner up. The full result can be viewed on the site of our colleagues of escflashmalta.com
.Also Radio International will reveal the final result of the voting
poll of our listeners. The poll closed Saturday at 1700 hours and a
rundown of the 24 songs of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2013 will
be given during the show.
Radio International will air this week an interview with Gianluca after
he won the national final but also an interview that was done before the
contest together with his sister Dorothy Bezzina who also had a song in
the competition called "Starting from the End". During the aftershow party JP also spoke to the composers of "Tomorrow" Boris Cezek & Dean Muscat and last year's winner of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest - Kurt Calleya who qualified Malta for the Grand Final in Baku with the song "This is the night". The interview with Boris and Dean - the composers - will be aired next week during Radio International.
 Live Interview with Annsofi (Norway 2013 Pre-Selection): This coming weekend Annsofi will be competing in the national final of Norway with a song written and composed by Eurovision Winner Alexander Rybak ("Fairytale" in 2009 for Norway). Radio International is delighted to have a live interview with the singer this week during the show. We wish all the best of luck to Annsofi to do well during the Norwegian National Final.
 Interview with Christer Bjoerkman - Mr. Melodifestivalen and Mr. Eurovision of Sweden 2013: Head
of Delegation of Sweden for many years as well as being one of the
responsibles to set up the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmoe,
Sweden - Lilian Brunell, our roving reporter in Sweden, has been at the
Press Conference in Stockholm where the host of this year's Eurovision
Song Contest was announced. Further Lilian interviewed Christer
Bjoerkman which Radio International airs this week. As well as an
interview with Edward Af Sillen who is also in the organising team of
Europe's biggest music event and Melodifestivalen and was the commentator of SVT in Baku.
 Interview with Emmelie de Forest (Denmark 2013); With Europe
being in full swing of selecting their entries to the Eurovision Song
Contest 2013 Denmark has had their go on 26 January 2013 where Emmelie
de Forest won the national final with the song "Only Teardrops" and thus
will be waving Denmark's Flag in Malmoe come May. The Radio
International New Man and editior in chief of escXtra.com - Luke Fisher
has submitted an interview with the the young singer for broadcast
during this week's edition of Radio International.
 Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight - The 2013 National Finals with Ross Bennett: A
brand new year has started and the Eurovision World is already in full
swing of selecting their entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 that
will be staged in Malmoe, Sweden on the 14 May 2013 (Semi Final 1),
16 May 2013 (Semi Final 2) and 18 May 2013 (Grand Final) where so far 39
countries will be competing for the trophy and the rights to hold the
Eurovision Song Contest 2014. As every year Radio International reviews
the National Finals with the regular correspondents and this week it is
the turn of Ross Bennett who will be taking a look at the selection process of Denmark and Malta. Find a full listing of the upcoming National Finals here.  Eurovision UnderCover: Last week, Radio International started a brand new series on the show featuring Eurovision Cover Versions where
JP
will be intoducing some of the finest Eurovision Song Contest
entries covered by other singers. Just be surprised. You will be hearing
the actual song that has been on the Eurovision stage followed by the
cover. Enjoy the brand new series. Listeners are encouraged to send in
their cover versions they came across over the years to share with the
other fans tuning into the show. Alternatively, listeners can send in
their request for a particular Eurovision covered song using this link.
 New Song Releases by Eurovision Artists: Radio
International is always keen to know how the careers of Eurovision
performers develop after their performance at the event. The show is in
collaboration with many Music Companies that supply Radio International
with the latest songs of their signed up artists to bring the muisc
closer to the fans. On a weekly basis Radio International receives songs
which are being featured on the show.  Eurovision Song Contest News: Luke
Fisher
joins the team in the studio every week to bring you the news
and the latest developments connected to the Eurovision Song Contest.
Whether it is music releases of Eurovision performers, special
concerts, gossip, etc Luke will have it all for us during the weekly
edition of Radio International. He also takes a look at some statistics
such as viewing figures in the various countries and more.
In addition, Eurovision News is available on www.eurovision.tv, escxtra.com, esctoday.com and escflashmalta.com.
 Eurovision Song Contest Calendar of Events: Check out a detailed listing of all events scheduled around Europe. If you hear of something we have not listed please drop us a line by clicking here and
let
us know. After Eurovision is before Eurovision and to bridge the
Eurovision Gap many Eurovision Clubs will be holding their annual
convention. But also all the National Final Details are being displayed
in the Calendar. Make sure you frequently check it out.
Upcoming Events - Highlights:
13 April 2013:
Eurovision in Concert 2013 in the Melkweg of Amsterdam, The Netherlands with 2013 Eurostar. Details
 Eurovision Quiz: Scratch your heads and bite your
nails at our weekly Eurovision Song Contest Quiz. Good luck and win a
copy of a past Eurovision Song Contest Final on DVD. All you have to do
is to identify the five clips with Artist, Song, Country and Year. Send
your answers via the website's CONTACTs form. As long as stock last you can also select something out of
the Eurovision 2010 Goodies Bag. Good Luck! Congratulations go to Michael Nagelkerke from Maastricht, The Netherlands for once again winning this week's Clip Quiz.
Eurovision Music requests as well as other music requests are most welcome and can be done via our website's CONTACT US page. Let us know what you want to hear and where you are from. Due
to the large number of requests we received and cannot accommodate this
week these requests will be added to the play list for the future
shows.
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